WFCB Seminar Series
When: Wednesdays, 4:10 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (BYO coffee social begins at 3:30)
Where: In person - Foster Room, First Floor Meyer Hall
Or via Zoom (https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95336593247?pwd=AJm3bj98kmOMbVlPh69yady1LjDerS.1)
Interested in presenting? Please contact Eric Post (post@ucdavis.edu)
January 22, 2025
Ellie Bolas, PhD student, Graduate Group in Ecology and Department of Wildlife, Fish, and
Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Talk: “Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape”
Speed networking session: WFCB Departmental Speed Networking
February 12, 2025
Lee Burrows, PhD student, Graduate Group in Ecology and Department of Wildlife, Fish, and
Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Talk: “Effective eradication of an introduced population of Common Watersnakes, Nerodia
sipedon, in California”
Sami Araya, Junior Specialist, Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory, Dept. of
Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Talk: “Utilizing Otolith Geochemistry to Identify Origins of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Preyed
Upon by an Endangered Avian Piscivore”
March 5, 2025
Tenaya Russell, MS student, Graduate Group in Ecology and Department of Wildlife, Fish, and
Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Talk: " Warming temperatures may reduce the hatching success of wood ducks (Aix sponsa) in
California's Sacramento Valley"
Nikolas Floros, Assistant Specialist, Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Laboratory, Dept.
of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Talk: “The reproductive biology and culture of endangered Longfin Smelt”